A new book takes a unique look at Saskatchewan entrepreneurs.
Birth of a Boom: Lives and Legacies of Saskatchewan Entrepreneurs is the first in what the Prairie Policy Centre hopes will be a collection of books highlighting the province’s entrepreneurial spirit.
Released Dec. 2, the book profiles 13 Saskatchewan businesses whose multi-generation survival has made them legacies.
“(The centre) really wanted stories of companies that had been around a really long time and were, for the most part, still in operation and had been handed down through families,” said author Suzanne
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Early entrepreneurs such as Jacob Tell of Cindercrete Products and Spencer Abner Early of S.A. Early and Co. Ltd. Hay, Grain and Feed (now Early’s Farm and Garden Centre) were the type of people the centre was looking to highlight.
Dean Gange, president of the centre’s board of directors, said families featured in the book possessed the spirit and determination the centre was looking to inspire in budding entrepreneurs.
“You can be an entrepreneur in Saskatchewan, and you can be successful,” said Gange.
“And that’s the message we want to communicate.”
The centre will distribute the book to high school and local libraries.
“We want to make it available so that people who have an entrepreneurial bent would be able to literally look at success stories in Saskatchewan, and that are still in Saskatchewan, and once they read those stories, be inspired to say, ‘I can do that, too,’” Gange said.
He said future books may focus on women entrepreneurs, young entrepreneurs and Saskatchewan entrepreneurs that have been successful outside the province.
